One hour workshops/papers on Thursday 14-15
Ron Robinson (USA)
Spirituality of Strengths
Thursday 14-15, Room LS B3111
About Leader: Dr. Ron Robinson is the Perkins-Prothro Chaplain & Professor of Religion at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. His research is in Religion in America and Religion in the American South. His personal interest in spirituality includes the integration of positive psychology and spiritual practice.
About Workshop: Drawing upon current research in positive psychology, the strengths movement, and spiritual practice, this workshop presents a new pedagogy for student development. Included are opportunities for individual and group spiritual formation experiences. The workshop equips the participant to lead such a "Spirituality of Strengths" model on their campus.
Salla Tuominen (FIN)
Deacon in student chaplaincy
Thursday 14-15, Room RH B3108
About Leader: Salla Tuominen (1964) is a deacon for student and international services in The Lutheran Parish Union of Oulu. Her work is in a way or two to support the students and teachers in vocational colleges and in Oulu University of Applied Sciences. Sometimes she is also in University of Oulu to help her colleague in that work. International work comes to her by exchange students. She has working experience as well from The Diaconal Institute and Finnish Seamen’s Mission.
About Workshop: In this workshop I try to open You the Finnish way to do deacon work with students in that environment. Shortly I’ll open the history and then with the help of other deacons in this section we will draw the picture, what are our strengths and weaknesses.
Wes Campbell (AUS)
Wisdom and a New Theological Way
Thursday 14-15, Room LS B4115
About Leader: Wes Campbell is a Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia (ordained 1975), and ecumenical chaplain to the University of Melbourne (1 year). His formal study took place in Australia and in Tuebingen, Germany, concluding with a doctorate in Australia (systematic theology) on Ernst Troeltsch's approach to history. He has worked in parishes, social justice policy and education, and doctrine. He is a painter in oils and acrylics, and has held a number of solo and group exhibitions.
About Workshop: In our time of 'data', 'information' and 'knowledge transfer' wisdom is neglected. We also live in the time of the death of God and a newly strident atheism. The paper suggests that we may be helped by a re-reading of Gerhard von Rad and others who explore the Wisdom Literature as a creative response to a new cultural environment when the ancient faith seemed to lose meaning. . Biblical Wisdom may assist us to find our own voice now. Perhaps this will permit us to craft a theological anthropology that assists us to speak anew (however indirectly) of the covenanting God.
Rev Henrik Hofling (SWE)
Reflecting lights over the identity of the spiritual guidance in a secular and multi-religious landscape
Thursday 14-15, Room LS B4116
About Leader: Rev Henrik Hofling, took his Bachelor of Theology from studies at Stockholm School of Theology. He is a member of the official national board for university chaplains in the free Churches of Sweden, and he is also associative member of the local university college the committee of plurality. He is also part time working as in a Ecumenical Congregation (Methodist Church of Sweden and Baptist Union of Sweden in cooperation with the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church). He is ordained in Baptist Union of Sweden.
About Workshop: To be a spiritual guide in a secular and multicultural landscape ? to be solid in your loneliness and alert to different processes in different religious traditions. There is an act of learning entails the crossing of borders between that which is already known and that which is unknown or only partially known. During the session you will hear perspectives from one local University College in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alan Murray & Asgar Halim Rajput (UK)
Multi-faith chaplaincy in action: progress and problems
Thursday 14-15, Room LS B3109
About Leaders: Alan Murray is the Churches' National Adviser in Further Education in UK. This is an ecumenical post, funded by the Church of England and the Methodist Church, with some funding from the Catholic and Free Churches, supporting a network of multi-faith chaplaincies.
Asgar Halim Rajput is the Muslim member of the Chaplaincy team at Brunel University, London, and also a regional development officer for the National Council of Faiths and Beliefs in Further Education.
About Workshop: Multi-faith chaplaincy teams are reality now in both further and higher education in Britain, though there are different models and terminology across both sectors. This workshop will explore some of the key models and issues in both sectors, drawing on the experience of participants, as well as on an introductory paper from the presenters, which will examine theologies of chaplaincy from different faith traditions.
Rev Jennifer S Croft (UK)
From Darkness to Light. Deliverance ministry in a UK university
Thursday 14-15, Room RH B4114
About Leader: Jennifer is the Anglican Chaplain, team leader of the Spirituality and Faith Centre and part-time physiology lecturer at Coventry University. Jennifer is an experienced deliverance minister in an Anglican Diocesan team and she is currently in the early stages of her PhD which has theological, psychological and educational elements.
About Workshop:When young adults are taken out of their religious and cultural context it can potentially cause some mental health and spiritual health issues. Evidence has shown that university chaplains may come into contact with some international students who require deliverance and healing ministry. This paper will explore some typical case studies and it will highlight the overlap between mental and spiritual health, and where deliverance and healing has been required. By sharing these findings, this paper will begin to offer some helpful guidelines for university chaplains to consider in their ministry to students, in leading them from darkness to light.
Jan Fuller (USA)
Sharing more light: implementing and using a student chaplain program
Thursday 14-15 Room LS B4113
About Leader: Jan Fuller is the Chaplain at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA USA where she has served for 21 years. She is a native of Beirut, Lebanon.
About Workshop: This workshop will focus on the planning and implementation of a student chaplaincy program. When the chaplain is one, when we can only accomplish so much, when we don't understand student cultures, how do we maximize our resources? How can we minister in wider circles by training and resourcing students to do peer ministry? Some ideas based on a successful student chaplaincy program at Hollins.
Fr Edmund Tillekeratne
Value education
Thursday 14-15, Room RH B3112
About Leader: Rev. Fr. Edmund Tillekeratne is a catholic priest working as a full time Chaplain to university Students in the Archdiocese of Colombo Sri Lanka. There are four state univerisities in the diocese. Re. Fr. Tillekeratne worked as a lecturer in philosophy in the national seminary, Ampitiya, Kandy for ten years as a full time lecturer prior to this appointment. He holds M.phl in Philosophy from Urban University in Rome, B.Th from same University. B.Mus - Bachelor of Music from Lucknow University in India. M.Sc from London School of Economics. Tillekeratne works as a musician in the diocese , doing experiments on Music and therapy. He has produced number CDs with regard to this. The last was a CD on trauma councelling for Tsunami Victims.
About Workshop: Sri Lanka being country with ethnic and religious diversity students need to understand and foster basic human values among ethnic and religious communities. At present, there are number of problems facing the country- Civil war and religious disharmony. This has led to deterioration in basic human values.
How can basic human values could be fostered. Responsibility of Chaplain in this regard and workable hypothesis that could be implemented. Students in Universities are the leaders of future society. With the academic work load how can this be done in universities. This has been a demanding task on the part of chaplain. Practical procedures that could be followed here.
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